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Progressive education, or educational progressivism, is a pedagogical movement that began in the late 19th century and has persisted in various forms to the present. In Europe, progressive education took the form of the New Education Movement .
The Quincy Method, also known as the Quincy Plan, or the Quincy system of learning, was a child-centered, progressive approach to education developed by Francis W. Parker, then superintendent of schools in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, in 1875.
Based on the criticism that American secondary education curriculum had been designed to meet the needs of college admissions rather than those of students, the Progressive Education Association sponsored an eight-year study between 1933 and 1941 to determine whether young adults could excel in college if college admission requirements were revoked. [1]
Theorists like John Dewey, Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky, whose collective work focused on how students learn, have informed the move to student-centered learning.Dewey was an advocate for progressive education, and he believed that learning is a social and experiential process by making learning an active process as children learn by doing.
Titone, Renzo (1962). "Review of The Transformation of the School. Progressivism in American Education 1876-1957". International Review of Education. 8 (3/4): 473–475. ISSN 0020-8566. JSTOR 3441987. Weiss, Robert M. (1962). "Review of The Transformation of the School, Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957". History of Education ...
Francis Wayland Parker (October 9, 1837 – March 2, 1902) was a pioneer of the progressive school movement in the United States. He believed that education should include the complete development of an individual — mental, physical, and moral. John Dewey called him the "father of progressive education
It was the principle that animated his work, throughout a seven-decade Hollywood career of unparalleled influence and a lifetime of advocacy for such progressive causes as civil rights ...
Kilpatrick spent his professional career and the rest of his long life at Teachers College, Columbia University (TCCU), where he was instructor in history of education (1909-1911), received a Ph.D. in 1911 with his thesis (supervised by Paul Monroe) titled The Dutch Schools of New Netherland and Colonial New York (published in 1912 in various ...